NAME

       ecofind - searching for taxonomic and rank and taxonomy id for given regular expression patterns

DESCRIPTION

       ecoPCR  is  an  electronic PCR software developed by LECA and Helix-Project. It helps to estimate Barcode
       primers quality.

       This program belongs to the exoPCR package.

SYNOPSIS

       ecofind [options] <patterns>

OPTIONS

       -a : [A]ll enable the search on all alternative names and not only scientific names.

       -d : [D]atabase containing the taxonomy.
              To match the expected format, the database has  to  be  formatted  first  by  the  ecoPCRFormat.py
              program located in the tools directory.  Write the database radical without any extension.

       -h : [H]elp - print <this> help

       -l : [L]ist all taxonomic rank available for -r option

       -P : [P]ath : add a column containing the full path for each displayed taxon

       -p : [P]arents : specifying this option displays all parental tree's information for the given taxid.

       -r : [R]estrict to given taxonomic rank

       -s : [S]ons: specifying this option displays all subtree's information for the given taxid.

       -P : Display taxonomic [P]ath as supplementary column in output

       arguments:
              <taxon> name pattern bearing regular expressions

SEE ALSO

       http://www.grenoble.prabi.fr/trac/ecoPCR/